On Sep 23, 9:56 am, "Jim Beaver" wrote:
> "Okierazorbacker" wrote in message
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> news:1190511088.441707.89310@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...
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> > On Sep 22, 6:42 pm, Howard Brazee wrote:
> >> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:21:48 -0700, tomcervo wrote:
> >> >Joe McBride told Roddy McDowell in the course of an interview that his
> >> >performance in "How Green Was My Valley" was the best child
> >> >performance ever. McDowell demurred, citing Jackie Coogan in "The
> >> >Kid".
>
> >> Two excellent performances, but Joe was right, Roddy wrong here.
>
> > Very right to mention Coogan, though. He turned out to be quite a
> > turd as a person, from what I've heard, but that's a great kid
> > performance in an overall great film.
>
> I've never heard anything bad about Coogan as a person, aside from some
> difficulties with alcohol in the aftermath of his betrayal by his parents.
> He apparently served heroically in WWII. What have you heard, and where?
>
> Jim Beaver
The adults who were kids on "The Addams Family" despised him, I recall
from seeing one of those retrospective shows about that series.
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